Veteran runner Bob Freeland scored a gutsy win in last Saturday’s Stawell Amateur Athletic Club 5km Stephen Baird handicap. Running off 4 minute 30 seconds, Freeland quickly took the lead from front markers Gary Saunders and Axel Meumann over the difficult, hilly course. Several minutes behind, Gary Howden was also performing well, with mid field […]
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A small field of runners tackled the Lindsay Kent Memorial Sealed Handicap, and 8km championship race, held near the Stawell Airport. In what is now an annual event, both Stawell Amateur Athletic Club and the Ararat and Stawell Cross Country Club combined races for the day, with all runners starting together. Both clubs award their
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After some great performances in the junior ranks Nat Watson is starting to make his presence felt in the senior rankings, taking out the Gary Rice Handicap on Saturday. The race was held from Garry and Rhonda’s lovely property on the outskirts of Stawell, with the 5km race being held around the picturesque vineyard, now
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Veteran Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runner Meg Parnaby reveled in the flat conditions along the Wimmera River course last Saturday to take out the Andrew Darnell Memorial 8km Handicap. The race started from the Horsham Running Club clubrooms in the Horsham Showgrounds, and proceeded south-west along the river for four kilometers, then returned. It didn’t
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Nathaniel Warren fought his way to the front in the closing stages of the race, to take out the Howdens of Stawell Handicap. Held over a tough, hilly course in fantastic autumn weather, the conditions were perfect for running. A very small field of eleven runners set off over the 8km course, with Gary Saunders
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